Self-Worth
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Owning Your Voice: A Bit on Writing Craft and a Lot on Identity
Why am I doing what I’m doing? Who is it for? What meaning does it hold? The urge to compare can be paralyzing, but we can each only be who we are. How I can lean into who I already… Continue reading
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Facing a Double Bind: A Birthing Dilemma
At its best, is not the process of birth itself a form of surrender? One where my body delivers and yields, opening up to an embodied way of giving life that has been happening since women first knew existence. It… Continue reading
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Ebbs and Flows: Two Things True Simultaneously
Negative self-talk, shame, and comparison don’t serve me in working towards my goals. It also doesn’t help to completely let myself off the hook every day and say, “oh well.” No book manuscript will get finished this way. Continue reading
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Don’t Fall for Your Own Bullshit
Everyone needs voices and relationships in your life that call you on your own bullshit. Okay, I won’t speak for you. But I will speak for me. Continue reading
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The Intimate Expression of One’s Own Being
We are inextricably linked and interconnected with everyone around us. Most of us live oblivious to it, our ego teaching us to think in an individualized way. But if we are all made in the image of the Divine, if… Continue reading
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My Most Generous Interpretation
What if I set aside instinctual judgments and assumptions about my relationships, choosing instead my most generous interpretation of what is going on? Continue reading
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Welcoming Resistance
No matter what I want to build into my life—a workout regime, a writing habit, a parenting shift, marital intimacy—I have to face resistance if I want to embrace that lifestyle or task. But there’s something in me that resists… Continue reading
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Rewilding Motherhood
I felt my deep longings were seen and voiced by Evans. Also, the limitations of this season of life and our place in the world as women. It was a book that didn’t ask me to do or accomplish anything… Continue reading
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Myths About the “Will of God”
Reconsider that given a set of options there is only one choice that is within the “will of God.” Which choice is THE choice? Is God for one, and against the other? But God is often not that binary. Continue reading
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Building Meaningful Work
What is meaningful work and how do we go about it? Whether you are creating something, serving clients, running a business, or being a parent, we all have to face the question of “why do we do the things that… Continue reading
Danielle Klafter 